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In November 2011 Nominet, the UK registry for .uk domains announced that the standard 2 year register period would be abandoned in favour of the ability to register a .uk domain for up to 10 years.

Register a .uk domain name for only 1 year

The changes also bring in a radical change in that a .uk domain can be registered for only a single year if that’s what you need.

These changes have been brought in to enable registrants more flexibility on securing their .uk domain names. It is also believed this will help reduce cyber squatting* with the new ability to secure domains over much longer periods.

*Cyber squatting is where a domain owner forgets to renew a domain and risk of a third party taking over the domain with the view of charging a ransom to return the domain back the original owner.

.UK domains are the favourite domain in the UK.

Research shows that a .uk domain name remains popular in Britain. In research taken by Nominet in 2011, 81% of UK web users said they prefer .uk domain and website when given a choice in the search results. The main reason given as to why they prefer a .uk domain is because they felt more likely to have better relevance with prices in sterling and lower delivery charges.

Order .uk domains from 1st May 2012

From the 1st May 2012 you will be able to add any .co.uk, .org.uk, and .me.uk names to your basket as normal and then select from the new domain extended registration periods.

All new (and existing) PRO-HOST accounts now have new features available in their hosting control panels. PRO-HOST users now have an e-commerce section to ‘one-click’ install 8 popular e-commerce scripts to help turn your web site into a thriving online store.

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Mobile internet usage grew by 267% in 2010, and 2011 approximately 15% of all web traffic is on mobile devices and growing! Mobile accessibility is becoming one of the key considerations in web design.  Automatically detecting which device a user is browsing with and serving the appropriate version of the website accordingly, goMobi is the easiest way to optimise your ineedwebhosting website for mobile users, without compromising on quality with this new add-on!

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We’ve added “Open Web Analytics” to one click install on all PRO-HOST and above hosting accounts.

The software is packed for of features to analyse, track and report your web site performance.

• Open source, running on PHP, MySQL and JavaScript
• No limits on data logging
• Ability to track multiple websites
• Heatmaps, conversion goals and goal funnels
• Mouse movement tracking
• Optional command line interface for admins
• PHP and JavaScript tracking clients
• Full integration with WordPress and MediaWiki without the need for third party plugins
• Plugin support for Drupal

And much more!

Try a demo here

As from the 6th of September we’re changing our current default version of PHP 4 to PHP 5.

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Part Two of a series of posts to help the beginner understand what is needed to make your web pages search engines friendly. We are optimising an imaginary “Washing Machine Repairs” web page. In Part Two we cover; Keywords, Hyperlinks, and ALT tags.

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Having slaved over a carefully crafted web site design, and launching it to the world, you now find yourself disappointed that you are nowhere to be seen in any search engine listings - a very common scenaro.  We have all been there before.

Part of the web site design process should include Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) consideration at the initial conception of the web site.  Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is very often overlooked in favour of bolting it on as an afterthought when the site is completed.

The following tips will help beginners consider what to look out for when building a web site, give a little bit of understanding of what is needed and what fixes can be retro-fit to an existing web site to help you achieve better SEO results.

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After you have created your website with iWeb, you need to know how to upload a iWeb website to our servers. Read all »

We thought it would be fun to design a Domain Search Widget to help frequently made domain searches by Mac OSX computers easier.

Download this Mac OSX dashboard Widget and install on your Mac, you can then make domain searches from your desktop.

The “i need a domain” Widget remembers up to 20 recent domain searches to refer back to.

Please download the “i need a domain” Widget (v1.0) here

Enjoy

Note: We’ve updated the widget to work with the new URL’s

Domain Mapping is an extra add-on feature you can order for additional domains that point multiple domains to your primary hosting account.

But I hear you asking…

• Why do I need domain mapping? 
• Why bother, I can already re-direct domains using the tool in the domain control panel!

We shall answer these questions, pointing you to a few good reasons why and when you should use it. Read all »